NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Comcast gives RSTs a rest -- and the future
Greetings. It was always my view that the crude club of forged resets would not last long as a Comcast "traffic shaping" mechanism. However, we'll have the tools available to help detect if this particular technique is in use outside of Comcast (and elsewhere in the world as well). Trust but verify. While Comcast presumably saw the writing on the wall regarding their resets, this was really a relatively easy skirmish, since resets are so very obvious. We're now embarking on a likely era of much more pervasive, often complex, and potentially highly anticompetitive traffic shaping and limitation techniques. Tiers and caps can be manipulated in ways that favor ISPs' own content offerings over those of outside services, and all manner of ISP content manipulations, monitoring, tracking, injection, diversion, and other similar activities have been appearing at an increasing pace, not all of which will be easily detected or proven. So this isn't the end of the war. It's only a single step in one of the earliest battles. Plenty to do ... --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator